Yumchaa

Nice place for a break. The atmosphere is cosy and relaxed.
There is quite a wide range of teas you can choose from. However I tried one of their pastry and I was a bit disappointed, it was heavy and too fat.
My advice, go there to enjoy a nice cup of tea with a good friend or a good book ;)

at least fifty different sorts of tea! coffee is almost great. despite the crowd, you find a place in a magical way. i’ve never gone down to the basement, they say it’s nice too.

You’d think tea shops were easier to come by, but London seems flooded as anywhere else in the world with the same chain coffee shops… Searched tea on Unilocal,glad we did!
Bewildered by the choice of teas at the counter, staff guided my choice to a mild black tea with orange, lemon and blackberry. Very natural flavours. We enjoyed a scone too. Bonus: free pot refills!

Love this hole in the wall café. Very fragrant teas and yummy nibbles. I had the Notting Hill with a toastie. So Yum!

I don’t know where to start. Everyone seems to love this place but I was absolutely not impressed. I went about a month ago to get a chai latte on the go and it was honestly the worst chai I ever had. Yesterday I decided to give it another shoot as the place is really cute. Once again the staff was not really friendly, the person who made my matcha latte spilled half of it all over the counter just cleaned the counter and let my cup completely dirty. The drink was not good at all which was very disappointing. I would personally not recommend this place except maybe for the food I did not try and which looked good.

The staff here just makes you feel like you’re not in London anymore because they are so friendly that for a moment you forget the rudeness out there. The tea here is the best I’ve ever had and I wish I had this place in my country. This is one of the places I’m really going to miss from this city. What can be better than to be cozily inside drinking tea and having a scone while you look trough the window on a rainy day? I’m in love with this place !!!

I love fancy tea, and there is nothing that makes me feel fancier than drinking a pot of tea containing ingredients I can’t pronounce with all the proper equipment. The choice of tea flavours at Yumchaa can actually be a little overwhelming, so take a breath and take your time when making your choice — you’re going to get an entire pot of whatever you choose, so it’s best to make sure it’s something you’ll enjoy.
This particular branch of Yumchaa is very small — but don’t let that put you off. You’ll doubtless get a table eventually, and the staff are very friendly. My favourite experience here was one Sunday afternoon; I’d been shopping for most of the day on Oxford Street and my feet hurt and I was stressed out. I wasn’t quite ready to call it a day yet and needed a little respite before heading into Soho to meet friends.
Yumchaa saved the day, and my feet, with an empty window table and a warming pot of red chai. I sat with my fancy white tea pot, my fancy cup and saucer and my fancy tea strainer, watching the world go by, as I sipped this bright red liquid and felt like Queen of Sheba. It’s weird what certain tastes and smells can do to you, but with Yumchaa it’s always a pleasant experience. I highly recommend popping in for a pot when you’re in need of some tea therapy.

Yumchaa is a great place to not only catch up with your friends but to get your work done (they have many outlets too)! The employees are super nice and provide great customer service. The variety of food to choose from isn’t too much, but the Falafel wrap and Matcha Green Tea are such a great pair.
You may have difficulty finding a seat there during busy hours though, but either than that I had no issue in finding a spot to get comfortable in.
Can you guys bring a Yumchaa to NYC please?!? I really miss it!

I bloody love Yumchaa’s shops, and this is no different. A large pot of tea and cake with either a great conversation partner or a good book can only enhance a London day (particularly if it’s a dreary one!). I prefer to sit upstairs — despite being a little less comfy there’s the natural light and ability to people-​watch.
There are many teas to have in and to take away, lots of useful information and helpful staff. As with any tea, it’s hard to know what it will taste like before you drink it, so I tend to stick to the same two chais! Cakes for the most part hold their own, but aren’t outstanding.
All-​in-​all, very «hygge»! (Ask a Dane if you’re not sure what it means).

I love this tea shop. I came here twice when visiting London last week. It’s a very cozy place to just relax and enjoy a nice cup of a tea. I got a pot of the English breakfast tea (2 large cups) and toasted scones with jam & butter. Both were so delicious! It was a great way to start the day. I also ended up buying a few bags of tea to bring home for myself and as a gift.

Lost in the streets of london. Coming from dublin I always thought light of the phrase ‘the big shmoke’ but man… small fish in a big pond is underestimating it. I found absolute comfort in the cosy atmosphere of yumchaa in soho, a little café full of tea, super sambos and of course the best chai! No syrup here, brewed to perfection. Spicy chai.milk.froth! Don’t forget the teapot. Sit in on a rainy day for extra delight! :)

I went to Yumchaa lots of times and I drank tea because Yumchaa sell tea and it’s very good.

Pretty disappointed with the tea here. I got the matcha latte and my girlfriend got the iced berry tea. The matcha latte was watered down and came in a very small cup. It was actually one of the worse matcha lattes I’ve had! The iced tea was nothing special so not sure why the reviews are so high. The only pluses is the free wifi and the available bathroom

My favorite tea place in the world! I used to study here as a student and it was a must do when visiting London again. The place lived up to my recollection. Generous assortment of teas and you can smell each blend before ordering. Yummy cakes and scones, too.

Came here on a glorious sunny weekend and enjoyed a chilled raspberry drink (something like a frappucino minus the coffee, I’m sure you know what I mean). It was delicious, it came in quite a generously sized cup, it arrived very promptly and I proceeded to drink it in a relaxed atmosphere. I didn’t try any cakes this time round but they looked pretty tempting. Recommend!

Yumchaa… Un de mes endroits préférés à Londres !
Lorsque j’y vivais, j’avais déjà l’habitude de me rendre à celui qui se trouve à Camden, capable d’y passer un après-​midi entier au calme.
C’est le type de salon de thé dont je raffole, un lieu claire, lumineux et épurée. Très au calme, on y retrouve beaucoup de personnes ou d’étudiants en train de travailler (merci la connexion WIFI). C’est sûre que ce n’est pas à Yumchaa qu’on fera la fiesta. On y ressent une certaine sérénité. Tables et chaises ont probablement été dénichés sur des brocantes ou dans des greniers. Tous les meubles sont dépareillés, mais tout cet ensemble donne un lieu absolument charmant.
On y trouve une trentaine de thés différents. Un véritable lieu de choix pour ceux et celles qui sont gourmands de thés. On a le choix entre du thé vert, du thé rouge, du thé noir ou encore du thé blanc. D’ailleurs, on peut aussi en acheter ! Autant vous dire que je né manqué pas de repartir avec mes trois sacs de thé. Petite mention spéciale pour leur Chai Latte ! Ils en font comme nul part ailleurs et dans les règles de l’art (j’ai l’impression que c’est de plus en plus rare, beaucoup d’enseigne utilise du sirop pour faire leur Chai Latte) !
N’hésitez pas non plus à goûter leurs petits sandwichs, mais surtout leur dessert. J’ai un très bon souvenir de leur cake sucré.
Sans oublier l’accueil d’une grande gentillesse et d’un bon service.
A la recherché d’un endroit pour faire un break entre deux sessions shopping? Né cherchez plus, c’est l’endroit idéal !

I love this place! Although small, it’s prefect for little get togethers or tea catch ups with a friend. There are so many different variations to try, and you can be brave and adventurous with your tea this time as you can smell all the options that are displayed by the tills.
It’s very tidy and the staff are great. Service is really quick and there are some nice snacks and cakes to eat, too.
They also have loyalty cards, and great gift ideas that are inexpensive.

I really like this tiny tea shop.
Granted, it’s what you’d class as a hipster-​ish place, which is usually a nice thing if you can live with the wonky wooden chairs and worn out sofas and armchairs. I personally love it.
It’s one of my two go-​to places when I’m meeting with potential clients (talking about an artsy kind of job) or just people I’ve never met before; I find that suggesting them the lemon drizzle cake is a good ice breaker. That’s the one I always get and it’s always paired with the lemon sherbet tea.
Every time I go I say myself I’d try something new but I’ve yet to do so. I nibbled a piece of sweet scones from a friend and it was also really good, and my parents had the nutella and banana cake and vouched for it.
They have free wifi and a pretty quiet and relaxed atmosphere that I love.
The missing star is for having to wait to get a decent table most of the times and because I can’t really judge a place as AWESOME if every time I go I order always the same two things: P

Adorable petit salon de thé à la déco hyper vintage. Petites tables en bois cérusé, murs laissés à l’état brut avec briquettes, différents papiers peints fleuris, chaises et tabourets dépareilles… Bref, mignon et accueillant.
Tout de suite à l’entrée, on a une belle vue sur le choix sucré: des cakes par dizaines au chocolat, thé vert, carotte… Avec ou sans glaçage et même sans gluten. Du choix pour tous.
Juste à côté sont posé des dizaines de petites tasses avec les différents thés proposés en boutique ! La aussi il y en a pour tout le monde ! Noir, vert, blanc, rouge, infusion et épices de tous les coins du monde.
J’ai pu tester le thé vert Genmaicha, dont je raffole. Ce petit goût de popcorn me détend toujours après une longue et dure journée. Le Mango Sunrise était top aussi ! Je sais qu’il peut se boire en thé glacé mais chaud c’est parfait, très parfumé et délicieux.
Le «croque/​panini» de mon pote était pas mal apparement mais je né l’ai pas goûté donc je né peux pas vous en dire plus !

J’ai découvert Yumchaa au départ non pas par leur salon, mais par un de leurs thés, au détour d’un petit déjeuner: le Chelsea Chai (mélange au thé vert qui n’a pas grand chose à voir avec un Chaï, mais qui se transforme quand même en orgie d’épices dans ta bouche, bim bam boum).
Du coup, de passage à Londres, pourquoi né pas profi-​thé (HAHAMURFFF) d’un tea time pour visiter la boutique? Le lieu est croquignolet, les patisseries sont plutôt bonnes et le choix de thé est interessant ! Coup de coeur pour moi, le Old Fashion, un mélange de Lapsang Souchong, de poivre noir et de zestes d’orange. Faut aimer, mais si vous buvez autre chose que du Lipton fraise-​rhubarbe, ça pourrait vous plaire.
A retenter quand il faudra que je remplisse de nouveau mon stock de thés !

I went here to meet a new acquaintance, having previously not been entirely sure what Yumchaa was.
It’s a tea shop, duh.
I was initially a bit stressed as the queue was quite short, and getting shorter, and I had no idea which tea to choose from the very substantial list. There was only person working there, I think the other was on a break initially, so I had to wait five minutes or so, so comfortably settled on the Ginseng Guardian Blend, the name of which includes all of my favourite pretentious words. It was unusual in its list of ingredients, interesting and tasty, but not overpowering at all. And so I was pleased.
It came in cool pot-​come-​cup thing and with a strainer, it felt a little bit proper, but still quite a bit high street. It was something like £2.50. Their cakes looked really good, not sure how I resisted. There was quite a bit of space despite being early evening. I think I was probably unlucky with the slow service, so I will be back here, I believe.

Parfait pour une pause bien méritée après avoir déambulé dans Camden Town !
Le lieu est petit mais très bien agencé et décoré, l’atmosphère est tranquille on est un peu à la maison !
Les pâtisseries sont vraiment bonnes et le chaï latte (maison) est tout simplement parfait !
Comme le dit très bien Chanel L c’est un lieu un peu différent des autres spots londoniens car on né se mélange pas trop aux autres, et c’est de ce fait assez impersonnel. Cela dit, l’accueil est chaleureux, les banquettes confortables et le wifi est gratuit, comme je l’ai dit, parfait pour une pause gouter/​petit dej !

I didn’t fall in love with this place as much as I wanted to, and that was probably my own fault.
My sister was in town and in need of some tlc, so given there is nothing that cake and a cuppa can’t help with, a quick Unilocal app search whilst on Oxford St brought us here.
Thanks to all that recommended the lemon drizzle cake — it popped up as the first review quote so we duly obliged, and it went down a treat. They even gave us the end piece, which as lemon drizzle fans will know, is actually the best part :)
Confusion reigned around the tea though — the menu whilst lengthy in numbers is actually printed quite small in the shop and with no prices in sight. You couldn’t really see your options until you got to the front of the queue, and they were busy so I didn’t feel like we could spend ages faffing and sniffing all the little pots. As a result I promptly panicked and ordered a chai latte like the guy in front of me. This should’ve been fine… except I also made a huge mess all over our table downstairs pouring it out (what can I say — I don’t do well with spout-​less jugs!), all the while confused over whether they should’ve given me a strainer like they did my sister.
She soon perked up thanks to her funky teapot (which lifted to reveal the teacup beneath it) so all was not lost. Thumbs up for free wi-​fi and sofa seating downstairs too. My apologies to whoever had to clean up any spillages I missed though — I will have to go back to make amends and order a proper tea!

Petit au premier abord, Yumchaa possède une salle au sous sol cosy avec des fauteuils (un peu) vieillot et quelques tables (un peu) bancales. Mais cela fait parti du charme de l’endroit
A COMMANDER :
— Le chai tea latte fait maison
— Une pâtisserie maison parmi la sélection exposée (de toute façon c’est très difficile d’y résister)
ON AIME
— Les petits pots remplis de feuilles de thé, qui nous permettent de choisir celui que l’on souhaite à l’odeur (vraiment pratique!)
ON Y VA AVEC QUI?
— La copine bavarde qui apprécie le thé et qui pourra nous parler pendant des heures. (chouette, le refill est gratuit!)
— Son meilleur bouquin du moment, installé sur un fauteuil en sous sol
— Son PC et son inspiration d’écrivain, le wifi est gratuit aussi !

As good as tea gets!
A pot is £2.55 and is plenty for two large cups. They have about a trillion varieties of tea, but before you go and have a panic attack about which one to choose, know that they have brilliant little ‘sniffing’ cups in front of the tills!
There’s not much space upstairs, but downstairs there’s a bunch of tables and a comfy-​looking couch. It’s a bit like a basement cavern, but it also has a certain Alice-​in-​Wonderland quality to it.

Bön mon preferé en tant que salon de thé reste encore et toujours le Breakfast club mais le Yumchaa se défend vraiment bien. Je n’ai testé que celui-​ci et celui de Camden Town qui est tout aussi bien mais mon quartier chéri étant Soho c’est celui-​là qui aura mon avis!
Bön je commence tout de suite par dire pourquoi 4 et non 5 étoiles. Une seule raison: la décoration et ba il n’y en a aucune! Rien accroché aux murs, murs soit en pierre soit peint en blanc et des tables et des chaises toutes différentes dispersées un peu partout. Selon les Yumchaa il y a parfois quelques efforts de fait mais rien d’exceptionnel.
Voilà à part ça il n’y a que des bon points! La première fois que je l’ai découvert ce fut avec deux amis couchsurfeurs qui m’ont dit: «que tu aimes ou non le thé il faut qu’on te fasse connaître cet endroit»!!! Alors c’est partit. J’avoue collection de thé assez impressionnante et il y en a également à l’achat et à des prix plus que raisonnables.
Ensuite il y a de tout si l’on a faim: salades, sandwich, gâteaux et de somptueuses et délicieuses patisseries!!! Il y a également de tout si l’on a soif: café, thé, jus, alcool avec le bar mais il me semble qu’il né le serve qu’à partir de 19h mais à vérifier!
Le personnel est super sympa, le seul truc que je pourrai un peu regretter c’est que c’est peut être un petit peu moins routard que d’autres endroit sur Londres. On se mélange moins mais il y a quand même une ambiance plutôt cool et décontracté.

Petit salon de thé/​café/​gâteaux/​sandwiches très sympa, calme, avec un grand choix de thés (et pas en sachet, s’il vous plaît) et surtout des sandwiches délicieux et variés.
Atmosphère détendue, très laid back, et service extra-​gentil, un petit sentiment de «comme à la maison», comme si un copain vous faisait choisir votre sandwich dans sa cuisine…
Je reconnais que tout dépend bien sûr du serveur sur lequel vous tombez, mais là, coup de bol, j’ai vraiment passé un bon moment — et bien mangé.
Alors pourquoi bouder son plaisir? 5 étoiles !!!

Good brownie, nearly OK americano. A very nice ambience though and fun view at the busy streets (Noël & Berwick) out of wide windows. Ah, Sunshine in London is good in any case :-)